• Working on your Holiday Photos with Digikam

    This is the holiday season and you expect to take a lot of photographs. If you are not planning on taking a lot of photographs, you are at least planning on taking more photographs than you usually take. Just past the new year you would probably realize that you have a lot of photographs and not so much time to work on them, especially if you are in the “occasional photographer” category. The number of photos that yo...
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  • Review: Kata DR 467i Camera Laptop Backpack

    I had been itching to get my hands on a comfortable backpack that could accommodate my camera with the additional lenses, cables and other stuff that I like to carry on me with my camera, in addition to a standard 14 or 15 inch laptop. I researched on the internet for the right bag for quite some time. I really didn’t want to go overboard with this selection since I don’t plan to increase my camera gear by any sub...
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  • Carrying Out Batch Actions in digiKam

    I have written about digiKam in the past. That was more of an overall review of a great piece of open source software. Recently, I have had the opportunity to use the individual features of digiKam more in detail. One of the features that I use most frequently is “Batch Editing”. Honestly I used to use Phatch for all my batch editing needs until a few weeks ago. However, since the time that I have started using dig...
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  • Sony Alpha 300 Sensor Cleaning

    For the last couple of months I have had to do a lot of cloning and fixing of most of the day time photos that I have shot due to dust stuck to the sensor of my Sony A300. I spend a lot of time post processing for dust specs removal to otherwise perfectly good images. The reason that I have so much dust on my sensor, is probably because I like to change my lenses a lot, in the field. That's what happens when you...
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  • Starting my own Photo 365

    Update: The photo blog is up and running!!! You can visit it here or use the menu on the top of the page to go to the Photo Blog. The concept is slightly changed though. It's no longer a 365 type of project, rather more of a One Photo a Day kind of project. The time is now ripe for me to commit to a project that will require me to take one photo every day for the next 365 days. Today is the 31st of December 2009...
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Archive for August, 2008

Review: Acer Aspire 4520

Aug 31st

Posted by Abhilash in Hardware |

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A few months ago, I was in the market for a laptop that I could use for the usual home stuff and also play some of the older games like Quake 3, Half LIfe 2, FarCry etc. I wasn’t looking to spend too much on this laptop and so I went to the local Acer Mall. These guys had a good selection of Acer laptops and also of other Brands like Lenovo, Hitachi, HCL, Toshiba etc. The wife and I finally settled on the Aspire 4520 as she liked the looks of the laptop (too white for my taste) and More >

My Kjam VS iPhone 3G

Aug 25th

Posted by Abhilash in Hardware |

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Before I get down to the comparison of between my one and a half year old imate K-JAM and the shiny new iPhone 3G, I really have to say some thing about the literally blind fan following that the iPhone has been able to develop, and this is not India specific. Not having had first hand usage experience with the iPhone 3G, my views are basically formed from published sources and friends who have the iPhone.

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 3G to the world, the features/upgrades that he harped upon were, I found, laughable to say the least. The More >

Review: Moche’s

Aug 23rd

Posted by Abhilash in Life |

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If you are the kind of person who would go the extra distance to try a new place to eat and drink, then you would be like me. I drove 25 kilometres from Andheri to Cuffe Parade to eat and drink at Moshe’s. This was a place steeped in mystery for me. I worked in that area for over 4 years and used to frequently pass this place hidden behind shrubs and concealed in shadow always wondering what lay behind that cover and what people went in their to do.

Then after 5 years of being in Mumbai, I finally went More >